Grammar being an annoyance

[Razzle Bathbone]

I only dislike intentionally bad spelling, accidents are accidents, typos are typos etc.

There should have been a comma after the second "typos."
"typos are typos, etc."

The Oxford comma is controversial.

 

[shatnershaman]

i don't like it when people don't use capitals. it annoys me. i could care less about the rest. (lower case on purpose)

 

[Calobi]

On topic, I don't mind one or two spelling mistakes, depending on how long the rant is. However, if the spelling mistakes are blatant and plentiful, I get upset. It doesn't take that long to check your spelling, especially with browsers that underline misspelling. Also, if you write a review, spelling is very important in my opinion because you're trying to inform people of your take on a game/book/movie/etc. and poor spelling makes the rest of it look bad.

Off topic:

Some time in the 1700s a lonely man called E. Language, began stalking the other languages. And one day he began severaly beating them in dark alleys, and taking pieces of their language, and building his own bastardised version. He kept attempting to "improve" on his new abomination until we get to where we are today.

This is quite possibly my favorite representation of how American English (and maybe English in general, not sure how other Englishes are in comparison to ours over here) formed.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I care enough to notice that the first sentence of the OP should have ended with a question mark.

That was one of the mistakes I was alluding to in my mean spirited earlier posts.

Things like failing to capitalise the first letter of a sentence or not putting question marks at the end of questions piss me off. Not out of snobbery though, just because it's a really basic part of grammar that is taught at such a young age that nobody has any excuse for not doing it.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Honestly, it depends on my mood if I care or not. I seldom throw a period on one sentence paragraphs, or even the last sentence in a paragraph. Firefox has a spell checker built in, ans so does OSX, and I throw far to many comma's in one sentence I know that much, so I'm not perfect either.

Bsdeies, eevn if all the rghit lteerts are trehe, but are jlbmued up save the frsit and lsat lteetr, msot ploepe can slitl raed it.

 

[shatnershaman]

Brandeis, even if all the right muleteers are there, but are jumbled up save the first and LSAT teeter, most plopped can still read it.

That's what the spell checker says. I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

That's what the spell checker says. I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

"Besides, even if all the right letters are there, but are jumbled up save the first and last letter, most people can still read it."

 

[shatnershaman]

That's what the spell checker says. I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

"Besides, even if all the right letters are there, but are jumbled up save the first and last letter, most people can still read it."

Well then I guess that means most people don't use the spell checker.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

No, spell checker is flawed in a number of ways...

 

[shatnershaman]

No, spell checker is flawed in a number of ways...

Like unable to read minds?

 

[Fronken]

well, if people have trouble with the english language but still give it their best shot, i salute them, it's the people who know english but choose to write like idiots i hate, for example, young kids who play CS should not be allowed to write english, seriously, have you tried joining a CS chat and reading?, its really fucking annoying

 

[Arntor]

It annoys me when I see that I've used England's English spelling for one word and then an American English spelling for another in whatever I'm writing. Then I debate whether or not I should edit all of it into English-English or American-English, but I say "Fuck it" and go to sleep. Also, I tend to get fussy over where I put my commas.

 

[Evil Lawyer]

Have any of you read a book called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"? Although it is not a perfect grammar book, it is still quite funny and the author is about the closest thing you can find to an obessive grammatican with a keen sense of humour. One of her grammar exploits sends her to a local cinema where a film title left out an apostrophe, so she makes one out of paper and a stick and stands in front of the poster holding the apostrophe in the correct place as people stare at her.

 

[jezz8me]

Personally i do not care about grammar on internet forums. Because i usually go on late a night i write fast and i am IMing at the same time so using IM speak is easy. It is when people cannot write properly in other situations that is bad.

NOTE: I usually miss out on capitals because i am used to programs doing auto capitals

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

It annoys me when I see that I've used England's English spelling for one word and then an American English spelling for another in whatever I'm writing. Then I debate whether or not I should edit all of it into English-English or American-English, but I say "Fuck it" and go to sleep. Also, I tend to get fussy over where I put my commas.

Use England's English...after all they did kind of invent the damn language.

 

[stompy]

well, if people have trouble with the english language but still give it their best shot, i salute them, it's the people who know english but choose to write like idiots i hate, for example, young kids who play CS should not be allowed to write english, seriously, have you tried joining a CS chat and reading?, its really fucking annoying

I also hate it when people are hypocritical... No offence, but anyone who doesn't type properly (or at least does most of the time) doesn't get the privilege to *****. I'm sorry, but no.

I'm not pleased with people not typing properly, but such is life. What I do care about is when people incessantly ***** to others about people not typing properly. Get over it.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

Have any of you read a book called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"? Although it is not a perfect grammar book, it is still quite funny and the author is about the closest thing you can find to an obessive grammatican with a keen sense of humour. One of her grammar exploits sends her to a local cinema where a film title left out an apostrophe, so she makes one out of paper and a stick and stands in front of the poster holding the apostrophe in the correct place as people stare at her.

Fantastic book. It's definitely one of my favorites. As far as movies go, it irked me that "Pursuit of Happyness" intentionally spelled the word wrong; but I haven't seen it. A friend told me it's actually a device used in the movie; but it still bothered me, lol.

I think it's easier for Americans to not worry about the differences between UK English and American English; we simply don't know about it. There isn't a class on it, and nobody ever really points it out. I consider myself a pretty learned person; that is, experienced with more cultures than just my own (actually, other cultures absolutely fascinate me, but that's a different subject) but even I'm only aware of a few differences in spelling and formatting, as well as a few choice slang words. I'd love to learn more, but as I said, it's difficult to find over here. What I do know, I've learned from the internet, to be honest: talking to some of you who are across the ocean from me has taught me a bit. I also read books by British authors, which was pretty entertaining at first because I was absolutely CONVINCED that "whinging" was a typo, until it occurred more than once and I decided to look it up.

There should totally be a high-level English course focusing on the differences between UK and American English. I'd take it even though it wouldn't apply to my major at all.

 

[John Galt]

I try to use proper grammar and spelling most of the time while on the interwebs, however, my faith in the English language has been shaken once I saw the "Buffalo" sentence. Besides that, while I was working with some immigrants in an English As A Second Language class, I got to see just how bizarre most phrases and rules of grammar we have. There are so many strange rules that we naturally accept without noticing if we're a native speaker that are simply puzzling to anyone else trying to learn it. The whole experience makes me somewhat thankful I'm an English speaker learning Spanish rather than a Spanish speaker learning English. At least with Spanish, exceptions to the rules don't pop up with the maddening frequency they do in English.

Then again, I'm far from fluent. There's probably a whole nest of crazy rules that will boggle my mind the more I study.

 

[-Seraph-]

I try to spell as well as I can, but honestly I really don't care if someone is not spelling correctly. As long as I understand what they are trying to say and not using slang up the ass it's fine. Everyone makes spelling mistakes from time to time, be it they are a fast typer or they just overlooked something. Don't see why some people go bat shit if they don't always speak perfectly, the odd improper capitalization isn't going to end the freaking world.